Seven Days to Goodbye (Irene and Stellan) novel Chapter 17

After finishing her visit at the Alaska Native Heritage Center, Stellan was just about to leave when a bright young girl holding a camera stopped her.

“Hey handsome, could you take a picture for us?”

Stellan looked in the direction she pointed and saw that her companions seemed to be about the same age as her, all quite young.

He took the camera without refusing and, for once, patiently gave them some guidance.

“If you stand on the slope, you can capture the full view of the Alaska Native Heritage Center.”

Suddenly, for a brief moment, Stellan saw an extremely familiar profile through the lens.

He trembled all over, as if afraid the same thing as last time would happen, and carefully adjusted the focus.

As the image gradually became larger and clearer, Stellan’s breath caught.

When that beautiful, smiling face appeared vividly in the viewfinder, Stellan’s fingertips trembled and he pressed the shutter.

He hurriedly returned the camera to the girls, his gaze fixed tightly on the figure standing under the corridor.

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The girl smiled gratefully and said, “Thank you.”

They eagerly shared the photo with their friends, but Stellan did not hear their murmurs: “Why did he take a picture of a pillar?”

At that moment, Stellan felt as if the world before his eyes was rewinding, the wind howled past his ears, yet he could still hear his own heartbeat.

It clamored, excited, and brought him before her.

“Irene!”

This time, he tightly grasped Irene’s wrist.

Feeling the soft warmth in his palm, Stellan’s eyes reddened, a bit at a loss, but more overwhelmed with the joy of regaining what was lost.

“Rene? Is it… really you? You’re not dead?”

Irene tried to pull her hand back but could not break free, her expression turning cold.

“Stellan, it’s only been a few days and you can’t even recognize an old friend. You were hoping I’d die!”

“You couldn’t wait to bring Valentina here for a trip, not even willing

to wait a moment?”

Hearing Irene’s barbed words, he would have lost his temper in the past, but this time he found them endearing.

He smiled and hugged Irene, the panic of the past days gradually settling down.

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“I knew you were too tough to die.”

He spoke gently. “Rene. I’m not leaving anymore.”

What he had left unsaid in silence last time, he finally voiced this time.

“This time, walk with me once more, along the path where we fell in love.”

Irene struggled for a while, her voice choked with tears: “Then what about Valentina?”

Stellan felt a sharp pain in his chest, realizing that everything before had been his misunderstanding of Irene, and he had hurt her deeply.

“I let her go. She will never appear again.”

“It was my fault before, Rene. From beginning to end, the only one I ever loved was you.”

After a long moment, Irene finally responded softly.

“This time, let me be the one to stay with you.”

After the excitement faded, their emotions gradually cooled. Stellan and Irene interlaced their fingers, watching the sun set behind the western hills.

After being estranged for so long, they both knew that it could not be erased in a single moment.

“Rene.”

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Stellan opened his mouth, wanting to say countless things, but in the end did not know where to begin.

He simply wished, selfishly, for time to stop at this moment, hoping the wind would carry everything he felt to Irene.

Thinking this, Irene leaned against his shoulder of her own accord.

“Have you planned the route to Eklutna Lake? This time, I’m not going to be the tour guide!”

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